Conservatives and Right Radicals in Interwar Europe Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right Series

This book features a broad range of thematic and national case studies which explore the interrelations and confrontations between conservatives and the radical Right in the European and global contexts of the interwar years.

It investigates the political, social, cultural, and economic issues that conservatives and radicals tried to address and solve in the aftermaths of the Great War. Conservative forces ended up prevailing over far-right forces in the 1920s, with the notable exception of the Fascist regime in Italy. But over the course of the 1930s, and the ascent of the Nazi regime in Germany, political radicalisation triggered both competition and hybridisation between conservative and right-wing radical forces, with increased power for far-right and fascist movements.

The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of politics, history, fascism, and Nazism.

Introduction 1. "Laboratory for World Destruction": The Habsburg Monarchy and Fascism 2. Volksdeutsch Revisionism: East Central Europe’s Ethnic Germans and the Order of Paris 3. Conservative and Radical Dynamics of Italian Fascism: An (East) European Perspective (1918–1938) 4. The Crisis of Legitimacy and the Rise of the Radical Right in Interwar Yugoslavia (1918–1941) 5. Integral Nationalism in Absence of Nation-State: The Case of Ukraine 6. Catholic Authoritarians or Fascists as Such? The Polish Rightist Subculture Turns Fascist (1919–1939) 7. Faith, Family and Fatherland: Conservatism and Right Radicalism in Interwar Hungary 8. The Romanian Right: Images of Crisis, the Press and the Rise of Fascism 9. Nationalism and Authoritarianism in Interwar Greece (1922–1940) 10. Dynamics of Division: The French Right (1918–1941) 11. Consecrating the Fatherland: Catholicism, Nationalism and Fascism in Spain (1919–1939) 12. In the Mirror of Fascism: Portugal and the Italian Experience 13. America as Alternative to European Radicalism? The United States and the Transnational Rise of the Right 14. Fascism After Fascism: History and Politics

Marco Bresciani is a Research Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Florence, Italy. His main research fields are the political and intellectual history of Italian and European socialism, antifascism, and anti-totalitarianism, as well as the political and social history of the post-Habsburg Northern Adriatic and of the post-war ascent of fascism.